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Friday, February 28, 2014

Well, no sooner has the U.S. and its EU handmaidens [1] installed the "government" of its choosing in the Ukraine (including various fascists and the man Victoria Nuland chose to be president, as revealed in her intercepted phone conversation with the U.S. ambassador in Kiev) then certain, shall we say, complications have arisen. Turns out that it's NOT the "will of the Ukrainian people" to turn Ukraine into a Western vassal state, just the desire of some of them. This should come as no surprise, given that those in the eastern part of the country are closely tied economically and culturally with Russia. The separate parliament in the Crimea region (which was part of Russia proper until the 1950s) has been occupied by opponents of the mob coup in Kiev.

“Gunmen” (the U.S. media term for
them- BBC's too) took over the parliament in Crimea, with a crowd
outside backing them. (Was it not a “gunman” who shot a cop in
the head in Kiev, and one who threw a grenade, which started the
killings there? No, it was “demonstrators.” And notice how the
Western media carefully avoided the words “occupiers” or
“occupying” during the three month occupation of
the government buildings and main square in Kiev, to avoid creating
mental linkages with the Occupy Movement- and reminders of how
hostile that media was to it, and its brutal crushing by the police
in the U.S. Oh, but that was different!)

What's happening in the Crimea is an
“armed standoff” (as the U.S. government's NPR and its satellite
radio stations describe it, for example). But the armed occupiers
facing the police for three months in Kiev didn't constitute an
“armed standoff.” (Recall they were throwing bricks and firebombs
at the police all along too.)

Obama, his Secretary of State the unctuous John Kerry, and War Secretary Chuck "Wagon" Hagel, are all waging their fingers at Russia and "warning" it not to intervene. It would "complicate" matters, in the words of a former U.S. ambassador served up to us by NPR (formerly National Puke- I mean Public- Radio, a U.S. Government propaganda radio network). Meanwhile "journalists" from "Radio Liberty" (the "Cold War" propaganda arm of the U.S. government, which- surprise!- still exists, even though we're told the Cold War is over, the U.S. having won it) and other Western propaganda organs apparently broke into the home of the overthrown president and stole thousands of documents, which they are gleefully waving about and posting online. (These same hypocrites demonize the likes the Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden, et al. Double standard, anyone?) We're told the ousted ELECTED president is "wanted" for killings of demonstrators. (Funny, no arrest warrant was ever issued for, let's say, Nelson Rockefeller, for ordering the Attica Prison massacre, or for Bill Clinton, Janet Reno, and Louis Freeh for the deliberate slaughter of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, burned alive and shot, including 17 children, or Wilson Goode, who as Mayor of Philadelphia ordered a bomb dropped on the home of Move!, with most of the survivors shot dead as they fled the ensuing inferno, against mostly women and children, or how many massacres of native Americans. Well, just because they'd been here 15,000 years, they still had no right to be here- their ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower,)

But I digress.

The U.S. media (and BBC and no doubt most of the rest of the European establishment media) has slavishly parroted the line that Russia should just passively stand by and let the West seize control of a country on its borders. Imagine if a mob seized the government in Canada, and Russian-picked stooges were then proclaimed as the new government, while top Russian officials warned the U.S. not to intervene. You'd have to be on some powerful hallucinogen to even imagine such a thing! The U.S. has threatened to start nuclear wars for less than that. "The" media is also straining the find a Russian hand in the Crimea rebellion against the rebellion- with the BBC even trying to claim, without evidence by their own admission, that the "gunmen" who seized an airport and other places are really Russian troops disguised as civilians. (They apparently rounded up a supportive crowd before seizing the Crimean parliament.)

Now "the West" apparently expects Russia to surrender its naval port in the Crimea. How about the U.S. clear out of Guantanamo Bay first, which is occupied by force and against the will of Cuba?

The point isn't that I'm pro-Russian. It's Russia's problem. The point is the utter arrogance, hyper-aggressiveness, and outrageous hypocrisy of U.S. Imperialists and their lackeys. They always push it to the hilt, while claiming victimhood: victims of "terrorism," of "Soviet expansionism," of "communist aggression," of "drug lords," of dangerous radicals, black militants, dirty hippies, whatever excuse they can cook up to justify external aggression and subversion and internal repression. The aggressive attempt of the U.S., aided and abetted by various lackey nations, to rule the world, is a source of constant conflict and destruction- and oftentimes mass murder. The truth is, viewed objectively, the U.S. has been a negative for humanity overall throughout its history. That's not to say the world would be a swell place if the U.S. magically disappeared- just that the U.S. is the MAIN source of trouble in the world today- although Islamofascism is a strong contender for second place.

1] Known as “Fuck the EU”
in internal State Department parlance- as per Assistant Secretary of
State Victoria Nuland, formerly chief State Dept. flack, in yet
another revealing display of the contempt in which U.S. Imperialists
hold everyone else on earth, even “close allies.” The NSA spying
revelations was another example. This is because those who live for
power, who revel in it, who consider it glorious, hold in contempt
those weaker than themselves- and fawn over those more powerful.
Since no nation is more powerful than the U.S., the U.S. Imperialist
elite holds all others in contempt.

Saturday, February 22, 2014

This might be a first in U.S.
Imperialist history: trying to overthrow three governments at the
same time. Namely in Ukraine, Thailand, and Venezuela. It's a feat
you might see in an Olympics of Imperialism, or maybe something an
overachieving empire would do. There may be even more governments the U.S.
is currently working to destabilize, of course; these three are just
very blatant examples that are visible to the naked eye, as it were.

The coup attempt in Ukraine appears on
the verge of success. The president has disappeared. His allies in
parliament are jumping ship. The police are withdrawing, and if we
can believe Western media reports (always a big IF, given their
propensity for disinformation- akalying) some
police even have joined the “protesters.” (Maybe they can put in
a word for their colleagues the rebels are holding hostage.)

One of the surefire signs of U.S.
“foreign policy objectives” is how the establishment media
“covers” (slants and distorts) a story. In all three cases, the
clear preference of this media, and thus indirectly of the U.S.
state, is obvious. In Venezuela, the U.S. media (and British and
other overseas U.S. lapdog media) has demonized Hugo Chavez since Day
One, not because of incompetence per se (as if they
automatically oppose incompetent rulers and support competent ones)
but because of the class interests Chavez openly championed, namely
the “lower” classes- the majority of Venezuelans. Now that Chavez
is dead, his successor Nicolas Maduro has to deal with U.S.
subversion and hostility. So far on three occasions the Venezuelan
government has had to expel U.S. “diplomats” trying to provoke
unrest and subvert the government. The latest batch were trolling for
troublemakers on college campuses. Their cover story? “Visa
outreach.” Good one, State Department! You made me laugh! (I'm sure
the people with Wrong Thoughts who have been put through the grinder
trying to get a U.S. visa would enjoy that joke. People
seeking U.S. visas go to the U.S. consulates or embassies. U.S. staff
don't go hunting for people to give visas to- unless they're up to no
good.)

But Maduro has shown weakness. Suddenly
he's asking to talk to Obama to straighten things out with the U.S.
Big mistake. Now the U.S. is going to increase the pressure,
since it sees it's working. So the U.S. is coming closer to its goal
of reestablishing a bourgeois class dictatorship in Venezuela.

In the case of Thailand, this clear
class bias in favor of the upper classes everywhere and hostility to
the majority of the world's people manifests in sympathy for the Thai
minority that is rebelling against the government and even prevented
voting in parts of the country. The alleged Great Devotion To
Democracy that the U.S. government and media profess was nowhere on
display- no condemnation of this prevention of voting, in fact barely
any mention of it, much less detailed coverage. “Even” NPR and
the BBC (UK) were slanted, though if you listened carefully to
the facts they presented, the facts belied the interpretation and
framework those organizations placed on the situation (requiring them to ignore their own facts). In Thailand a
distinct minority of the population- the elites, the privileged- is
trying once again to overthrow an elected leaders. (They have one
coup under their belt already, thanks to the Thai military, who drove
out the brother of the current head of state, in the process
violently suppressing his supporters who rallied behind him.) That
time too, “the” media sided with the coupists and against the
majority.

In the case of Ukraine, the media
“bias” has been the most outrageous. There, violent demonstrators
have occupied government buildings in the heart of Kiev, the capital,
for three months, and barricaded the area. They have violently
attacked police, starting with paving stones and dumping cold water
on them in the freezing winter, then escalating to Molotov cocktails
(homemade firebombs), and just recently shooting a policeman dead and
hurling a grenade in their midst, costing another cop his leg.

Yet the Western media have presented
these goons (spearheaded by fascists) as the Good Guys, and the
police as the Bad Guys. New laws designed to control the violence of
the “protesters” and take back the part of the capital city and
government buildings held hostage by them were immediately labeled as
“anti-protest laws” by propaganda organs such as NPR, the BBC,
and CBS. (Those are ones I heard it on; there are probably others.)
The protesters were said to be “defending their right to protest.”
Western governments weighed in on this grave violation of human
rights (while maintaining their silence on the real repression
going on in Bahrain, to cite just one example, or Israel, or Jordan,
or just about any client state or satrapy of the U.S. bloc). The
“democratic West” thus maintains its consistency and continues
its traditions of hypocrisy and double-standards. (For more on Ukraine go to democracynow.org and search for the interviews Stephen Cohen gave on the subject.)

Care to speculate how such protesters
would be handled in any Western capital? Based on the violent
repression of peaceful protesters in the U.S., for example,
most recently the Occupy Movement, we can confidently predict a
bloodbath would be the response. During the black riots in American
cities, “looters” were shot by the scores by State Police, local
police, and National Guardsmen. (Scores of dead were the “official”
count in the various cities, a count which isn't trustworthy of
course because the repressive state and Federal governments doing the
killing were issuing those numbers, meaning they had an incentive to
lowball the numbers. The corporate propaganda media faithfully
transmitted these death tolls to the public as “fact.”) Airborne
Divisions were even kept stateside instead of going to Vietnam to
fight there, in order to have a reliable domestic-suppression force.
Yet Obama has the nerve to threaten the Ukrainian government with
“consequences” if they “cross that line” and refuse his
demand to withdraw security forces from the scene of the
occupation! At the same time, Obama blamed “the violence”
entirely on the regime, with the U.S. media (and BBC) marching in
lockstep behind this line. Obama imposed a Catch-22 on the Ukrainian president, simultaneously demanding that he withdraw the police, AND "end the violence." Since the protesters are committing violence, police action is required to end violence. [1]

Now, I don't care who rules Ukraine, or
whether the ELECTED president of Ukraine signs or doesn't sign a
trade deal with the EU. He was going to sign, and Russian pressure
apparently caused him to change his mind. It's also a fact that
Europe and the U.S. have been aggressively pushing the border of
their economic and military sphere right up to the border of Russia
ever since the Soviet Union collapsed. (Wonder how the U.S. would
react if the Russians were grabbing Canada and Mexico into their
sphere! It would probably be war.)

The U.S. and EU aren't even willing to
wait for the next Ukrainian presidential election next year-
apparently they don't want to risk “losing.” (As if it should be
any of their business.) Hence the drive for the coup. The fact is,
the people of Ukraine are divided as to which way their country
should lean- East or West. This is a fact rarely alluded to in the
mendacious media “coverage,” which assiduously gives the
impression that the entire Ukrainian people are rising up against an
intolerable regime.(Not jumping into bed with the EU by signing a
trade treaty apparently is beyond the pale.) [2]

It's a textbook example of how
a small nation that doesn't do EXACTLY what the U.S. Empire and its
lackeys demand has its government overthrown. There are numerous such
cases- two of the most notorious being Iran in 1953 and Guatemala in
1954. As in the current Ukraine case, the demands in those cases were
also economic. [3]

Obama is a classic overachiever, a very
dangerous personality type to have as U.S. Emperor. With the immense
destructive power of the U.S. at his disposal, such a character, with
an ego-driven mania for “accomplishments,” can do tremendous harm
in the world- and Obama has certainly caused his share of misery,
suffering, and death so far. He has also inflicted lasting damage on
human rights inside the U.S., by his lead role in the destruction of
personal privacy via the omnisurveillance system centered around the
NSA, which he has championed and protected (and attempted to sneak
past the people under a cloak of secrecy- hence the revilement of
whistleblower Edward Snowden by the establishment power structure.)
[4]

1] To
mention just a couple of examples of the repression of peaceful
Occupy protesters, in “liberal” New York City, OBEYING a police
order was cause to be pepper-sprayed and/or arrested by the police
and falsely charged with crimes. The facts are well-established. The
police led 750 marchers onto a bridge in order to capture them and
take them into captivity and falsely charge them. And there's the
notorious case of the vicious Inspector Anthony Bologna, who
gratuitously pepper-sprayed two women who were standing exactly where
he had ordered them to stand. Obviously Bologna is a reactionary
fanatic who hates his political/ideological enemies (enemies in his
mind- unfortunately most of the victimized dissidents haven't figured
out that the police are their
enemies, despite ample evidence over many years- violent assault,
false arrests, malicious prosecutions, infiltration, surveillance,
sabotage, disruption- everything a police state like the U.S. does to
dissidents). Unfortunately for Bologna, he forgot to take them into
a back room in a police lair to torture them, instead doing it right
on the street in front of numerous witnesses and being recorded in
his criminal act. Police Commissar Raymond Kelly, Master of
Repression, was forced to dock Bologna a few days of paid vacation
time as a result. Pretty mild punishment for a high-ranking officer
publicly committing a malicious assault. Bologna maintained his rank,
power, and authority in the New York City Police. (Known as the
NYPD.)

2] American reporter
David Stern let slip on the BBC the morning of February 22 that “as
much as 46%” of Ukrainians support the overthrow movement. I.e.
Maximally, less than half of Ukrainians want to oust
the president by force. Real democratic. Notice that Stern and
BBC waited until the coup is almost complete to mention this rather
significant fact.

What's also ignored in the Western
media propaganda offensive is the fact that eastern Ukraine is
economically dependent on Russia, and the people there favor not
alienating Moscow as a result. They're Ukrainians too, not just the
cop-killers in Kiev. (They've killed about a dozen cops so far, by the way, a fact Western media now hides by lumping the police deaths in with all deaths, as in "X number of people have died in the violence," implying they're all dead coupsters.)

3] In Iran, Prime
Minister Mohammad Mossadegh committed the grave crime of deciding
that his nation should get more than a negligible share of revenues
from Iranian oil. The British oil firm British Petroleum (now the
criminal, incorrigible polluter BP) ran to its government, which got
the U.S. to help in a joint CIA-MI-6 coup. In the case of Guatemala,
President Jacobo Arbenz naively thought that he could appropriate
unused land held by the United Fruit Company, and pay compensation in
the value that United Fruit had stated on its Guatemalan tax returns
for the land, and allow poor peasants a shot at a decent living. This
was an unconscionable theft in UFC's eyes, so they went whining to
the U.S. Government, where two former elite corporate lawyers from
the criminal firm Sullivan and Cromwell, now had their bloody paws on
the top levers of power- Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and
his brother Allen, Director of Central Intelligence. (CIA boss.) In
short order they got President Eisenhower on board to brand Arbenz a
“communist” and arrange a CIA coup there (as in Iran). In both
cases, the coups ended democracy in both countries, and it hasn't
returned. In both countries, massive slaughters of civilians ensued
in the following decades, carried out by state terrorist regimes
coached by the U.S., especially the CIA, U.S. military, and State
Department.

If Arbenz had read up on history, he
might have realized how dangerous his move was. The U.S. already had
a history, going back at least aa century, of attacking Latin
American nations whenever some rich Americans were displeased with a
situation. For example, in 1854, a century before the Guatemalan
coup, it was necessary for the U.S. Navy to burn down the Nicaraguan
port town of San Juan del Norte. Why? Because when American plutocrat
Cornelius Vanderbilt sailed his yacht into town, the local
authorities had the effrontery to try and levy port charges on his
boat. Clearly a corrective lesson for the natives was in order. This
also nicely illustrates, as do most such cases of U.S. imperial
criminality, that ultimately U.S. power is deployed on behalf of
American plutocratic interests, whether corporate or even individual,
as in this case. And no crumb is too small for the Big Dog to snatch
away from the world's poor.

Yes, that really happened. It's amazing
all the dirty shit in American history that those in power manage to
bury with barely a trace that it ever happened. Of course, this is
only possible because of the willing assistance provided by such
accomplices as “teachers,” “professors,” “scholars,” and
“journalists,” the main indoctrinators and keepers of “truth.”
A handful of actual historians, such as the late Howard Zinn, have
rescued the interred bones of history from the enforced amnesia of
establishment guardian priests of ideological rectitude.

Here's an excerpt from a presentation
by Noam Chomsky in 1985 that mentions some of the U.S.' depredations
in Latin America, which the U.S. Imperium still calls “our
hemisphere,” as in “we own it.” (See the glorious “Monroe
Doctrine,” which declared the Western hemisphere off-limits to
European imperialisms. “Our” doesn't mean “we happen to be
located here,” it means “it's ours.”) Chomsky insightfully
illuminates the sham pretexts the U.S. uses for its aggression and
domination.

4] By the way, the BBC
in the last couple of days referred to Edward Snowden as “infamous,”
as in “the infamous Edward Snowden,” like it's an objective fact.
And that wasn't in a commentary, but the intro to a “news” piece,
offered as a matter-of-fact-descriptive. They don't even call Bashir
al-Assad that! (The Butcher of Syria.) They've outdone even U.S. “news” organs
with that one. (Some people are of the opinion that Snowden is
“infamous.” It is not a fact and far from a universal view. Some
regard him as a hero. Thus the BBC could have called him “hero
Edward Snowden” with equal validity. A more neutral, objective term
would be whistleblower. NOT "leaker"- leakers are anonymous. And they're usually "officials" hiding behind anonymity to plant propaganda in the media. Most thinks the establishment media calls "leaks" are really propaganda plants by those in state power.)

Anyway, Thank You, “Great” Britain,
for being so slavishly and sycophantically loyal to your U.S.
masters! I know the U.S. imperialists take you for granted, so I'll
thank you on their behalf, you rotten propagandist wankers.

Thursday, February 13, 2014

“President” Karzai of Afghanistan
just released 65 putative Taliban terrorist prisoners from Bagram Air
Base (who had been handed over to Afghan custody by the U.S. with the
understanding that they wouldn't be freed- that's what they get for
thinking Karzai's word is worth more than a bucket of warm spit).
Here's his defense of this reckless action:

“It is my job as President to look
after the interests of the Afghan people.” [BBC interview, February
13, 2013.]

So, it's in the “interests of the
Afghan people” to unleash fanatical terrorists on them, huh? That's
a rather debatable proposition, I'd say.

He also couched it in terms of Afghans'
“human rights.” (His laissez-faire attitude towards crimes
against women and children by “traditionalists” would warrant our
skepticism of this claim- and demands that Karzai explicate his
definition of “human rights.”)

Asked by the BBC as to ISAF's* motive
in imprisoning innocent Afghans, he says “the only possible reason”
is to make Afghans “hate the government” of Afghanistan, i.e. his
own regime.

What a crazy allegation! How's that for
gratitude for the billions shoveled into the maw of his corrupt
regime, including regular delivery of satchels of cash by the CIA to
Karzai personally, to hand out as bribes- from which he no doubt
skimmed some for himself as a “carrying charge.” I see scant
evidence of the West trying to undermine Karzai. Certainly they
should have stopped supporting him many years ago. Obviously
Karzai thinks by being “anti-American,” somehow he can ingratiate
himself with the Taliban. Even the Taliban's murder of Karzai's last
two top “peace” negotiators haven't disabused him of this
delusion. I only hope he sticks around after the Taliban seize power
again, if they do, and he ends up like one of his predecessors,
ghoulishly castrated and hung by the sadistic gunmen empowered by the
U.S., Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia to dominate Afghanistan since their
joint anti-Soviet crusade.

The BBC said U.S. gave them a dossier
for half the released prisoners, which claimed they were
armed, or had explosives' residues, and so on. And many were seized
within the last 6 months, not long-time prisoners as Karzai claims.
One was a senior Taliban leader- says the U.S. Of course, it's fair
to be skeptical of any U.S. claims about the matter. But I doubt that
every single U.S. prisoner is innocent and the U.S. never captures
any Taliban terrorists. Even Karzai said “most” of those he
precipitously freed were innocent, not “all.”

But the U.S. is on shaky ground thanks
to its own behavior over the years in its “War On Terrorism.”TM

It has rounded up thousands of
non-terrorists, many on payment of bounties, and imprisoned them for
years without recourse by the victims or their families. It has
institutionalized torture, and used the resulting “intelligence”
as “proof” of its claims and even as “evidence” in its
kangaroo-court “military tribunals.” Just last year the New
York Times, no less, reported on the unearthing of bodies around
a Special Forces base in Afghanistan, where torture and murder of
prisoners is conducted. So the U.S. unfortunately is in a weak
position to squawk (which hasn't stopped it from doing so anyway, of
course) about Karzai's dismissal of the U.S.'s characterization of
the released prisoners.

So basically both Karzai and the U.S.
are immoral and untrustworthy. Pick your poison.

* The International Security Assistance
Force, the umbrella for the U.S. and helpmate foreign military forces
in Afghanistan.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

So the Winter Olympics in the summer resort town of Sochi, Russia (which is akin to staging them in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, or somewhere like that) is costing the Russian People $51 billion (or rather, its equivalent in rubles). To put that in perspective, that's more than the cost of all previous Winter Olympics combined.

Naturally, there is mega-corruption, and Putin's crony capitalists are making a killing. For good measure, locals have been evicted and their homes demolished to make way for this ephemeral extravaganza. Local water supplies have been dried up, toxic waste dumps created, cropland ruined. And many of the imported workers who built the facilities were stiffed for their wages and run out of town by Putin's goon squads. (And if you're homosexual, you better keep it a deep, dark secret, if you know what's good for you.)

But it's for a good cause- Vladimir Putin's vanity.

The Olympics is a giant scam, run by corrupt bribe-takers. The eminence grise of the enterprise is still the avowed (and proud of it) fascist, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Sports Minister to the late Spanish fascist dictator and mass murderer Francisco Franco. (Samaranch's son is currently on the board of the International Olympic Committee, along with a bunch of his dad's hand-picked stooges.0

Virtually every city that hosts Olympic games loses big money on it. It is sought after by local politicians for their own vainglory. And the athletes are shamelessly exploited by this multi-billion dollar racket. On the corporations and television broadcasters and the IOC itself benefit.

The Russian people, suffering from poor nutrition, rotten health, terrible (or not) jobs, and a decayed and decrepit social structure, sure could have used that $51 billion to benefit them, instead of the ego of KGB Colonel/Dictator Putin.

Saturday, February 08, 2014

The Obama regime, and especially its
Godfather, uses words in idiosyncratic ways that might confuse
people. (Indeed that's the obvious intent.) Here, as a public
service, a translation guide to common Obamaoid terms and their plain
English meanings.

“Imminent threat.” - Hypothetical
at some indeterminate future point.

“No one is reading your emails/
listening to your phone calls” - No one you know, that is.

“The proper balance between privacy
and security.” - is zero to one hundred. (0:100.)

“Security.” - Deep state power.

“Freedom.” - Of those in power to
do whatever they like.

“You can keep your health care plan
if you like it.” - Until you can't.

“We're looking forward.” - by
immunizing U.S. state torturers.

“I will close Guantanamo Bay in one
year.” - Not.

“Due Process.” - Secret cabal of
Obama officials draw up a weekly death list and Obama approves it. [ As per Eric Holder, Jr.,
Attorney General of the U.S.]

“Transparent” government - Opaque
and secretive. For good measure, persecuting journalists,
including

wiretapping (AP and Fox, among others)
criminally investigating (Fox), seizing notes and
digital devices at U.S. borders, imprisoning them
(Barrett Brown) and murdering them (Michael Hastings).

“Whistleblower protection” -
Persecution of whistleblowers, including FBI home raids, felony
charges, directives to all Federal agencies to make employees
spy on each other, FDA spyware planted on scientists'
computers, etc. etc.

“Immigration reform” - Record 2
million people deported by Obama regime, thousands of families
smashed to bits, doubling of Border Patrol size, thousands
incarcerated in county jails and private prisons.

Children are being paralyzed by the
polio virus, which thanks to the regime of dictator Bashir al-Assad

has returned to Syria. Assad's Alawite
oligarchy, (Assad himself inherited the dictatorship from his
exsanguinous dad, Hafez) has been waging a war of extermination
against the civilian population of the country it misrules in areas
where rebels have driven out Assad's gunmen. This war of
extermination includes use of starvation, poison gases, and bombing
and shelling of schools, markets, and wherever else groups of
civilians of any ages might congregate and thus be killed in numbers.

From the beginning of the civil war
over two years ago, the Assad regime has targeted health care workers
suspected of aiding the wounded in rebel areas, and medical
facilities have been special targets. The regime just murdered a
doctor, after torturing him for 8 months first. With their special
signature cruelty, Assad's minions led the doctor and his family to
believe he was about to be released just before murdering him. Then,
in their usual smarmy and hyper-cynical fashion, insisted he'd
committed suicide. Pushing such obvious lies in the world's face is
one way they show their contempt for morality and the opinion of
humanity. Indeed, like the Nazis (a number of whom were harbored in
Syria after World War II), the Assadites draw psychological strength
from their openly reveling in their own immorality and criminality.
This is characteristic of devils. They glory in their evil.

As part of the criminal way the Assad
regime wages its war of extermination against anyone who dares
question the Alawite oligarchy's right to rule Syria in perpetuity
and without a peep of protest, as I said, medical services in areas
it has lost control of are targeted for destruction, and medicine,
like food, is cut off. Thus two enemies of humanity are
effectively in league: the polio virus, and the Assad regime.

Both need and deserve to be
extirpated from the face of the earth.

P.S.
The
UN just issued yet another report on Syria, this one on the torture,
maiming, and sexual crimes

against children there, mostly by the regime, but some crimes
committed by the rebels too. Not to worry: the UN diplomats and
bureaucrats are still well fed and sleeping in comfortable beds. I'm
sure this report will prompt some renewed hand-wringing and crocodile
tears shed by the political bosses of the world.

Friday, February 07, 2014

Here's the latest moral outrage against
humanity emanating from Afghanistan.

A young girl, a “child bride,”
so-called was beaten and starved by her “in-laws” for refusing
their demand that she be a prostitute for them (the money all goes to
them, of course). Of course, the very existence and widespread
acceptance in Afghanistan of forcibly enslaving children as “wives”
to adult males for their sexual use and as household slaves is itself
an example of the ongoing moral holocaust that exists in that country

What is the response of the Afghan
“government” [sic] to this?

The Afghan Parliament passed, a law,
awaiting the signature of “President” Hamid “Super-thief”
Karzai, that bars the testimony of family members in trials of such
cases. This is a not-very-subtle way of making such cases impossible
to pursue. (They're virtually impossible to pursue anyway in
Afghanistan's “legal system.”)

I'm not going to waste time denouncing
this, or explaining why it's horrible. That's all self-evident, and
if it isn't, that's because of others' stunted moral state and
intellectual idiocy. The deep awfulness is that the people in power
in that country- backed by the U.S. and its European lackeys- would
move to protect such criminals and make the victims helpless,
powerless, and guarantee future child victims.

Remember the girl who had her nose and
ears chopped off because she wasn't sufficiently submissive to her
new “family”?

Afghanistan is a place where the
officer running the military hospital for the maimed and wounded
Afghan soldiers that the kleptocracy expects to fight the Taliban,
steals all the medicines and sellsthem. And NOTHING
HAPPENS about that.

This is a country where the
“President's” brother and his cronies loot the main bank, and the
ensuing “investigation” (forced on the Karzai regime by his
Western enablers) is controlled by the thieves and their protectors.

I could go on, but why bother?

Human rights, children's rights, good
government, rejection of corruption, loyalty and honor, law and
order, dedication to duty, caring for one's fallen soldiers in a
battle against terrorists- these are prerequisites for any functional
society that is worth living in.

Justice, protection of the vulnerable,
and so on: These are NOT “Western values.” They are HUMAN values.
And don't let anyone tell you otherwise. The “West” (the old
imperialist powers of Europe and the current global hyperpower, the
U.S., and various lackey “white” nations like Canada, Australia,
and New Zealand) did not invent the human race, and thus did not
invent humanity or human moral values. Nor does “the West” lack a
long, exsanguinous, and horrific record of “human rights
violations” and mass slaughters (wars and genocides). So that has
NOTHING to do with “Western cultural imperialism,” the dodge used
by Third World criminals and their ideological fellow travelers among
Western “progressives” and left-wing hard core ideologues.

I believe that the human race should
become the dominant species on this planet. Indeed, until true
humans, with a respect and sensitivity for other species, deriving in
part from the understanding that we are part of this miraculous web
of life with all its wondrous forms, and not something separate from
it (as barbaric religions have it), become dominant, the existence of
the other species (regarded as “inferior” by “mankind”) will
continue to be threatened and wiped out.

As part of the quest for human
dominance, human values need to triumph over primitive anti-human
values such as those “traditional” Afghan ones. Note:
“traditional” does NOT equal “good,” per se. All
things must be judged on their merits, not on their seniority or
longevity. Slavery, sexism, racism, have long pedigrees and thus
claims to being “traditional.” Their survival does not prove
their meritoriousness. No more than the survival of diseases proves
that disease is a good thing. Barbaric practices of barbaric
societies need not be respected in the name of “tolerance” or
“cultural diversity.” Cultural diversity is fine- music, art,
culture, and so on. However, oppressive social practices should not
be permitted to shelter under the rubric of “culture.”